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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A 'singular' opportunity

“Novels
are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person
does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.”
– Charles Stross

Born
on this date in 1964, Stross is an award-winning British writer
who specializes in hard science fiction and space opera, both short stories and
novels.He also writes freelance pieces about
computer science and science in general – his two college degree specialties.

Stross wrote
his first science fiction story at age 12 and continued writing all the way
through college.After graduating with a
degree in Pharmacy he went on to a graduate degree in computer science, then
got back into writing in 2000, first as a technical author then as a fiction
writer in 2002.

His first published short story,
"The Boys,” actually appeared in 1987, and then became part of his first
successful short story collection in 2002. His first novel, Singularity
Sky, was published

in 2003 and went right to the top of bestseller lists,

ultimately earning a nomination for Science Fiction’s top award, The Hugo.Since then, several collections of his short
stories have been nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.

“I think,” Stross mused, “that if there's one key insight science can
bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs
to broaden its definition of the human condition.Because the human condition isn't immutable
and doomed to remain uniform forever.”

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About Me

In addition to years of writing of news, sports, and feature stories, both as a journalist and in public relations, I've authored seven books (and counting :), a one-act play, and three songs. I also contributed to two published anthologies.

My newest book, the historical novel And The Wind Whispered, has earned top reviews around the nation and a Silver Award in the Historical Fiction category at the 2016 Colorado Book Awards. Check it out on Amazon or Goodreads. It also is available ion both print and e-book formats through all major book outlets.

I enjoy public speaking on the topics of “Telling
an Effective Story,” “Effective Communication,” and “Storytelling – From
Journalism to Creative Writing" and have been an invited speaker at recent Historical Novel Society and Historical Writers of America national conferences. You can access an interview with me on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3qNiwWshAM

I retired from Augsburg College (and my wife from St. Olaf College) in 2013 when we moved to Colorado, where I've been working on my books, writing for Broadlands Living magazine, and doing freelance marketing and p.r.